MY STORY
My name is Sean Larsgard. Thank you for your interest in my obsession… the financial markets.
My first exposure to the market was in 1995 while a senior in high school. I took an entrepreneur class that stretched the fabric of normal high school curriculum. At the start of that school year, one of our tasks was to pick a few stocks out of the newspaper and track their performance for the entirety of the school year.
Each Thursday when the new paper was printed, we would flip through to the stock section, find our stocks we had picked and record their weekly change. This was literal “paper trading”. I had no clue what I was doing or what I was looking at, but I liked it.
As the weeks and months went on, I became fluent in reading stock quotes. By no means was I a “trader” let alone good at it, but I liked the idea of it. You must realize this is before most people knew what the Internet was… let alone even heard of trading software, which would still be years to come on a mass scale.
A few years later, I was introduced to trading software. As great as my interest was in this, coming from a family that didn’t own a computer was quite daunting. This, however, led to several more years of searching, studying off and on, and trying to find my niche.
Having determination and nurturing a seed that was planted in a class in high school can pay off big. From 2006 through 2015, I started 4 companies in the financial trading and software industry. Three of those companies I sold, the most recent one in early 2020 pre-pandemic!
So why come out of retirement after 3 years? Why do this again? Well, this is where the story gets good.
I have had many unique experiences over the years from many sides of the industry. From strategy creation to software development, working with many brokers and even one of the largest exchanges, providing specialized data I invented to traders at the CME/CBOT, a high-frequency trading venture, Quant fund strategy development, and many other odds and ends in the industry. But most importantly, coaching 1,000’s of people.
When I look back on these years, I think about all the people that have used and/or continue to use some of the tools that I created. Some of these people became incredible traders. Some even went on to become fund managers. Others went to work at prop firms. Many others simply trade as a hobby. And yet, some of them could never really grasp the concept and have most likely never touched the market since.
Why is this? Why is it that two people could have access to the same markets, use the same tools, execute the same strategy, and one is successful, and the other isn’t? This bothered me to the core and always has.
I found myself contemplating this and began to map out my entire process of breaking down the market, how it works, and how to easily extract profits in the most simplistic way that I could imagine.
As I began to do this, I imagined I was explaining this to someone who had never touched the markets before and knew nothing about them. As I walked them through the market, I broke it down into a few simple steps. So simple a child could understand it. My objective was to help them comprehend in an instant how these markets work and how, by using a simple technique, they could literally trade anything that has a chart. Not spend months or years trading, but literally understand a couple of simple things and then replicate it with uncanny precision, instantly.
I took a piece of paper and drew the pattern I verbally described. I am a visual person and I like to see on paper what is in my head. When I completed the explanation of how to trade any market, Solomon’s Seal appeared. I then went to my charts and pulled a dozen or more markets. Futures, Stocks, Forex, Crypto Currency… you name it. Anything that I had a data feed for, I looked at.
I recreated this on my charts by mapping out my process and, sure enough, Solomon’s Seal is literally everywhere. It did not matter what market I had in front of me. Every single seal I identified had proceeding trades that were ready to be made in the future. Once I could identify the seal, it showed me future trades with their exact entry and exit prices, including their entry times!
This was like the ultimate trader’s dream! Something that I had thought about for many years if not the last two and a half decades. Market, after market, after market. It did not matter what I had on my charts; Solomon’s Seal was there. The key, of course, is knowing how to find it and then how to decode it. And then I did it! I decoded the seal.
This math exists in the fabric of nature. Everything that is made and that exists possesses mathematical patterns that can be programmed and projected from a computer with simple commands. From galaxies to clouds to leaves, shells, neurons, you name it... everything contains this code. And yes, the market does as well. As random as the market may seem, it actually possesses these same mathematical equations. This is why it is so accurate and why we are able to know in advance the exact time, the exact price of entry, and the exact price of exit for every trade in the future!
After working nearly three years within the area of Quant strategies, I knew this needed to be packaged in automation. Yes, anyone "could" replicate this manually. But why leave something so powerful and successful prone to the natural human gravitational pull of emotion and rely on the end users' level of discipline? Something this powerful needs to be harnessed inside of powerful computer algorithms, thereby putting the odds in the favor of the end user – you!
This is automated trading. Once you turn it on, it does all of the hard work for you. Welcome to automated trading, as it should be!
My mission with Gray Box Trading is to help the “average Joe” or “average Jane” go from zero knowledge about the markets to instant success, transform current traders performance, and give those who manage or want to manage funds a platform to achieve their highest goals. Because no market knowledge is required, prior experience is not necessary. Running these automated programs is easy. You can trade anything you want, any hour, any day, and any time that market is open – successfully.
Risk Disclosure: Futures and forex trading contains substantial risk and is not for every investor. An investor could potentially lose all or more than the initial investment. Risk capital is money that can be lost without jeopardizing one's financial security or lifestyle. Only risk capital should be used for trading and only those with sufficient risk capital should consider trading. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.
Hypothetical Performance Disclosure: Hypothetical performance results have many inherent limitations, some of which are described below. No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to those shown. In fact, there are frequently sharp differences between hypothetical performance results and the actual results subsequently achieved by any particular trading program. One of the limitations of hypothetical performance results is that they are generally prepared with the benefit of hindsight. In addition, hypothetical trading does not involve financial risk, and no hypothetical trading record can completely account for the impact of financial risk of actual trading. For example, the ability to withstand losses or to adhere to a particular trading program in spite of trading losses are material points which can also adversely affect actual trading results. There are numerous other factors related to the markets in general or to the implementation of any specific trading program which cannot be fully accounted for in the preparation of hypothetical performance results and all which can adversely affect trading results.
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*TRIANGULATION works on all markets. However, the markets available for you to trade will be based upon what is available through your broker.
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